Growing up on the mean streets of Newark, NJ we loved the night before Halloween even more than Halloween itself. That night is known as Mischief Night (some call it Hell Night but we liked the term Mischief because that’s what it was all about).
The most important element for that evening were eggs…yes, as many as we could get too. Many an egg were thrown through the years.
I’ll never forget the cold night when I got whacked in the skull with an egg hurled from a long distance in the pitch black. It made such a horrific sound as it smashed into the side of my head and splattered all over my hear. OK that wasn’t a fond memory but it’s there..part of my yute. So is getting chased by the cops after hurling eggs with some friends. We never got caught but it was close a few times.
Some of my friends liked soaping up car windows but I thought it was lame. Others liked to TP homes and trees…but again, not my bag.
I always think of this night and smile as I remember the bonding we guys did as we ventured into the night. Of course, now that I’m a dad I cringe to think of my kids ever doing what we did…still, they are good memories to me.
The old adage is so true. We don’t know what we need, want, or love until it’s gone.
I love this song by Alex (not Adam!) Lambert from American Idol. He only made the top 12 because he was just too nervous in front of a live audience but he sure has come a long way. Check him out in this wonderful video as he performs all over the world including in the middle of Times Square.
Love his voice…sounds familiar but I can’t remember who..perhaps a little bit like Curtis Stigers? In any event, I think the kid has a bright future.
“I Didn’t Know”
Verse:
I thought I knew
But this just doesn’t feel right without you
I tried so hard to push away your heart when I should’ve let it through
I miss your voice
Anything else that I hear is just noise
Cause you changed my world, should’ve seen it girl, but I didn’t know
Chorus:
I didn’t know who you were ’til you were gone
I didn’t know you’d be so special to me
I didn’t know, didn’t know myself
I didn’t know all the love I felt for you
So baby please don’t go, I didn’t know
Verse:
I was convinced
That I could go through one day without your kiss
I never felt the way you made me melt
Oh since I touched your lips
Chorus:
I didn’t know who you were ’til you were gone
I didn’t know you’d be so special to me
I didn’t know, didn’t know myself
I didn’t know all the love I felt for you
So baby please don’t go, I didn’t know
Bridge:
Na na na na na na na na I didn’t know
Na na na na na na na na I didn’t know that I could fall so deep in love
I wanna be there when the morning sun comes up
Can you forgive me this time, baby please
I thought I knew, but this just doesn’t feel right without you
Chorus:
I didn’t know who you were ’til you were gone
I didn’t know you’d be so special to me
I didn’t know, didn’t know myself
I didn’t know all the love I felt for you
Please don’t let me go, so baby please don’t go
Outro:
I didn’t know, didn’t know, how beautiful, didn’t know
Didn’t know, I didn’t know, didn’t know
Not everything Steve Jobs or Apple touched turned to gold. Here are a slew of products that were either too ahead of its time or just weren’t good enough. Some never even got released. In any event, every failure contributes to success in some way. If you look closely, you’ll see features and options that inspired future products that did become massively successful (i.e. iPod, iPhone, iPad)
Apple PowerCD and QuickTake
Apple Newton
Apple Newton eMate 300 was introduced March 7, 1997 for US$800 and was discontinued along with the Apple Newton product line and its operating system on February 27, 1998.
Apple prototypes that never saw the light of day
As you might have noticed, almost all of these excellent videos (except for the Apple Newton video) were done by MattsMacintosh. I highly recommend subscribing to his YouTube channel here: http://www.youtube.com/user/MattsMacintosh. Here’s his twitter account: @MattsMacintosh
He does cover successful Apple products too. For example, here’s his unboxing video for his Apple MacBook Air.
“Objectified” is a wonderful documentary about the beauty of design. It was made by the same folks who made another favorite of mine, “Helvetica”.
Here’s my favorite part where Jonathan Ives shares a rare glimpse at the design process at Apple. He shows the raw material that is used to create a MacBook Pro.
Gary Kildall was a visionary whose contributions to the personal computer industry has been slowly forgotten or reduced to footnotes in history. His company, Digital Research Inc. (DRI) was one of the most successful computer companies of the 1970s and 1980s. There’s a popular story that’s floated around for decades about how Gary went flying the day IBM came to make a deal with his company so they then went to Bill Gates and made the deal with Microsoft instead. As it turns out, that wasn’t what really happened at all. Yes, Gary was flying that day but he was delivering software to a big client and did make it back to the meeting with IBM and did close the deal. Unfortunately, IBM gave Microsoft the better end of the stick as they sold PC-DOS for $40 and Gary’s OS for a whopping $240 which was big bucks back then. Naturally, everyone chose PC-DOS and the rest was history.
Gary became bitter over this raw deal but he did enjoy major success when Novell acquired DRI for millions of dollars. Still, things could have been radically different if his OS became the default OS instead of Microsoft’s.
Gary also became the co-host of one of the first computer TV shows in 1983 with The Computer Chronicles with Stewart Cheifet for about six years. He always enjoyed coming up with innovative new technologies such as the CD ROM and multi-tasking OS, among many other ideas.
He died at the age of 52 after a fall in a bar. The details are not known what happened but no matter what the circumstances, a brilliant visionary died too young. His contributions to the personal computer industry should never be forgotten.
Here’s an excellent special on Gary Kildall as hosted by his former Computer Chronicles partner, Stewart Cheifet.
I just love this song “No Regrest” by Dappy which is a monster number one smash overseas in the UK right now. The music video is very well-done too. It shows several nice storylines of people rising above their situations and circumstances. We always have the choice to just blame our lot in life and make excuses or choose to overcome it all.
This song is so good. The lyrics share a powerfully positive message about changing who you are which then changes your life and the world around you. It’s all connected. We can become a victim or the victor. It all starts with being honest with ourselves about who we are and who we want to be. This lyric demonstrates the self evaluation…point blank.
“Inside there’s a fire, cause I’m no longer looking at a reflection that i admire”
NO REGRETS Dappy
oo-oh-oo-oh-oo-oh Na Na Na Na Na oo-oh-oo-oh-oo-ohhh hear me ouutt this is my kings speech, im no where near the end, if i s-s-s-start a sorry i aint heaven sent, i messed my life up, and yeah ive been down im a changed man now Chris Brown, you know i feel your pain, coz i done been through it, im Kurt Cobain, but i just couldn’t do it, no point in turning back, just to hit rewind, back to the future, ma marty mcfly Inside theres a fire, coz im no longer looking at a reflection that i admire, i paint a picture of a fighter, but as im looking back at me since im a liar if i should die before i wake, the least that i could ever say, i made mistakes but held on to my faitthh, Cause when i look in a mirror i don’t even recognize My Self, got the heart of a winner, but looking back at me is someone else. No Regrets (x2), No point in crying over yesterday eh No Regrets (x2) cause we ain’t even seen the best of days! oo-oh-oo-oh-oo-ohhh Na Na Na Na Na oo-oh-oo-oh-oo-ohhh second verse: this is my last chance, im on my final straw, i came so close to b b breaking like a spinal cord, i came from nothing, some kid in camden, now im flier than the birds richard branson I’m a Prince and yes I will get the crown, Kate stays in my dungeon when her sister’s round, so please forgive me, if i make mistakes, but il blow the bloody doors off michael caine if i should die before i wake, the least that i could ever say, i made mistakes but held on to my faitthh, Cause when i look in a mirror i don’t even recognize My Self, got the heart of a winner, but looking back at me is someone else. No Regrets (x2), No point in crying over yesterday eh No Regrets (x2) cause we ain’t even seen the best of days! im freeeeee to be whatever i, coz im famous call me gallager coz im so shameless, the papers saw the pages like the cost of my failures, victimised by the public dont know if i cant take this, so i sing, so when you feel like theres no more, nothing left but the life youve broken, no regrets no turning back, pick up yourself and tell em im just being me! Cause when i look in a mirror i don’t even recognize My Self, got the heart of a winner, but looking back at me is someone else. No Regrets (x2), No point in crying over yesterday eh No Regrets (x2) NO REGRETTTSSSSS Cause when i look in a mirror i don’t even recognize My Self, got the heart of a winner, but looking back at me is someone else. No Regrets (x2), No point in crying over yesterday eh No Regrets (x2) cause we ain’t even seen the best of days!
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Growing up on the mean streets of Newark, NJ we loved the night before Halloween even more than Halloween itself. That night is known as Mischief Night (some call it Hell Night but we liked the term Mischief because that’s what it was all about).
